24 Oct 2002. Amateur Astronomers Joining Hunt for Planets

Sep 2002. Planet-Hunting Missions. Several future spacecraft will look for and study extrasolar planets. By Christine Griffin. Astronomy Magazine.

Mar 2002. Detecting an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, by JOSHUA N. WINN, Sky & Telescope magazine, March 2002, p. 22. Timothy Brown, mentioned in this article, is part of the NASA Kepler Mission Science Working Group.

Jan. 10, 2002. Kepler: The Search is On, by Edna DeVore - SETI Institute Director of Education and Public Outreach. Is the Earth rare, unique among worlds, or does our home planet resemble uncounted others that orbit distant stars? Do distant planets provide comfortable places for living beings? A new NASA space mission will help answer these key questions in the search for extraterrestrial life. On December 21, NASA announced two new space missions in the Discovery series: Dawn and Kepler. Dawn will explore two large asteroids in our own solar system. Kepler, on the other hand, will look beyond the neighborhood of the Sun to seek evidence for Earth-sized planets circling distant stars.
Full article at SETI Institute site or at Space.com site

2002 Kepler Mission (space.com)